The strange case of accountability

The case of Sir Ian Blair that's been in the media this week has fascinated me. Here is a man who is running an organisation that has been found guilty of killing an innocent man. In the private sector, if a company is found guilty of corporate manslaughter, the management get sacked and their career would be in ruins. Yet in the public sector, the management who got it wrong are present themselves as the only people to put things right. Imagine the directors of Enron stopping on to sort out their mismanagement. The whole idea is bazarre.
 
Of course, it's another symptom of Big Government and an overbearing state. There are so many controllers, the blame keeps getting laid off on the next person down until the computer programmer eventually sacrifices their job and everyone else 'gets on with the job of putting it right', until the next time. Just look at Government IT projects. Late, over budget and not fit for purpose. Who takes the blame for this non achievement. No one I know of.
 
It is time people like Blair were accountable to the public. Fortunately the Conservatives have a policy to remedy this issue with elected sheriffs. Local communities voting for their representative to hold polices forces accountable for their actions or indeed non actions. This is the way to make voters feel like their vote means something and will reinvigorate democracy. No wonder Labour don't like it.

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